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February 24, 2012

This Week's Acquisitions

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Agnes of Sorrento (Ticknor & Fields, 1862). 3rd ed. of Stowe's (mostly forgotten) historical novel set in Italy at the time of Savonarola; in the UK, published in the Cornhill right before Eliot's Romola. (eBay)

[Sarah Towne Martyn], Ilverton Rectory; Or, the Non-Conformists in the 17th Century. Founded on Fact (American Tract Society, 1864). Historical novel about the fate of a clergyman and his family after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 (which resulted in the Great Ejection). Towne Martyn (nee Smith) (1805-79) was an American novelist and editor who frequently wrote religious fiction about Protestants in the UK and on the Continent. (eBay)

A. H. Edgar, John Bull and the Papists; Or, Passages in the Life of an Anglican Rector (Garland, 1976). "Novels of Faith and Doubt" reprint of a novel first published in 1846. Despite the title, this is actually a pro-Catholic controversial novel. (Amazon [secondhand])